Blog: Future of water in California – Bleak or promising? A discussion
Water is the most valuable resource in the world. And it’s a particularly important commodity in the Central Valley, historically a desert but also home to some of the richest agricultural soil on Earth. The UC Merced Library and Secure Water Future co-hosted an event to discuss water policy in California, its history and what the future might look like. Guest speaker Mark Arax, author of “The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California,” painted a bleak picture. … [Ellen Hanak, vice president and director of the Public Policy Institute of California] pointed to the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014. The Act is a three-bill legislative package that requires local agencies to form groundwater sustainability groups and develop and implement groundwater sustainability plans …
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